Matchplay math question?

[Cardcounter]

What hands should not be doubled if you can only match your orginal bet and not the match play as well. Say you have a $10 match play coupon and you bet $10 if when you doubled down you could only add $10 to your bet and not $20 what hands should you not double down on that you normally would?
Lets say that splitting only costs you $10 instead of $20 what hands should you split that you normally wouldn't?

For a mathplay would it be better to play roulette with them if the roulette wheel only had one zero instead of playing blackjack? You can only make an even money bet and lose the coupon win or lose.

 

[KenSmith]

For all your matchplay and promo chip questions, there's a great article "Beyond Coupons", available at Grosjean and Mankodi's site, here:
http://www.beyondcounting.com/articles.html (Archive copy)

 

[moo321]

Baccarat is generally the best game if they will let you play it. Craps (pass/don't pass) and Pai Gow Poker are also very good games for match plays.

Blackjack is actually worse than roulette, because you only win 43% of hands or so (the 6 and a half percentage points of EV come from blackjacks, and getting more money in when doubling and splitting)

 

[Cardcounter]

Matchplay math!

By my math if I could only double down for half of what I could stand to win than doubling on almost any ace besides soft 17 seems like it would be the wrong play and would cost you money.
If you got a coupon that gives you your first card as an ace I would bet the maximum that the coupon would allow which is usually considerably less than the table maximum.